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The Stranglers In Session for John Peel – September 13, 1977 – BBC Radio 1 – The Stranglers in session to kick off he week. Their second session for John Peel, recorded on September 13, 1977. FYI: I ran the first session a couple years ago, so you might want...
Nada Surf – Live at Warm Up Festival 2018 – Murcia, Spain – May 7, 2018 – Radio Nacional España First off – great concert, strange soundboard mix (vocals are somewhere in the ozone and the bass is heavy) – Second; since it’s a live broadcast by way of RNE...
May 1, 1995 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – May 1, 1995 – A busy news day, this First of May. Beginning with news that a settlement had been reached in the trial of Malcolm X’s granddaughter Qubilah Shabazz, who was accused of a murder-for-hire...
Pizzicato Five – In Concert At Roskilde Festival – June 26, 1998 – RTS Coleur 3 Rebroadcast – Pizzicato Five in concert at the 1998 Roskilde Festival. Since we take requests, and since you asked, here is a sample of a band who were huge throughout the world, yet didn’t...
Johan Wagenaar – The Doge of Venice, Suite – Utrecht Municipal Orchestra – Paul Hupperts, Cond. – 1951 – Radio Nederland – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The music of Johan Wagenaar this week. From the Radio Nederland transcription service, a broadcast performance featuring the Utrecht municipal Orchestra, conducted...
Meet The Press – Sava Kosanovic – November 12, 1949 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Post-War Yugoslavia; smack in the middle of the East European Iron Curtain and ruled over by Josip Broz Tito, leader of the partisan resistance movement during World War 2, when Yugoslavia was overrun by...
February 9, 1945 – WEAF 6 o’Clock News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 9, 1945 – The offensive along the Western front got into high gear this day, as the Canadian 1st Army took fourteen towns and a gain of nearly five miles into Germany, and rapidly approaching...
Boston Symphony – Seiji Ozawa, Cond. – Maurizio Pollini, Piano – March 10, 1983 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Only two works this week, but they are widely admired works done by one of the world’s great symphony orchestras, with a much beloved Music Director at the Podium and...
Manuel Cano – Flamenco Classique – RCA-Victor France – ep 76.412 – 1962 The legendary Manuel Cano to end the weekend. A 45 ep he made for RCA Victor Records France in 1962. Manuel Cano is well known among students of Flamenco Guitar, and certainly is an institution in his...
The Cranberries – In Concert from Vredenburg, Utrecht – The Netherlands – February 8, 1995 – VPRO-Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – With the devastating news earlier this week of the death of The Cranberries’ Dolores O’Riordan, and the void her loss leaves, I ran their very first session,...
